One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old miles o'malley sneaks out of his house and goes exploring on the tidal flats of puget sound. When he discovers a rare giant squid, he instantly becomes a local phenomenon shadowed by ...One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old miles o'malley sneaks out of his house and goes exploring on the tidal flats of puget sound. When he discovers a rare giant squid, he instantly becomes a local phenomenon shadowed by people curious as to whether this speed-reading, rachel carson obsessed teenager is just an observant boy or an unlikely prophet.